HMCo #195p [Launch for St. Y. Dorothy]

"#195.
Frame spaces 9 5/[?]/16"." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.013.] Undated, ca. October 1897. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

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"[Item Transcription:] Y[ou]rs of 19th rec[eive]d & I was very glad to get a line from you.
Y[ou]r suggestion re. PELICAN [#408s] is a very good one & I w[oul]d like to have you go ahead and give her the coat of (easily removed) paint bottom, topsides & deck. I do mean the new composite duck for PUCK's [#465s] mainsail. I envy you these trial races altho[ugh] we almost might have had them on Wheatly Hill there has been so much rain[?]. I so am[?] utterly despected[?] that you are not hard at work on a lot of new torpedo boats, well its too bad. The MORRIS [#190p] took my fancy more than any of your creations in that line & I was much pleased she was such a great success. By the way I will try the new bottom paint on PUCK if you think it advisable. What w[oul]d you lent[?] the new launch[?] (one with extended stern[?]) for for[sic] the summer. [This is possibly a reference to #195p, a launch for the new steam yacht DOROTHY whose owner died before the yacht's completion.] I w[oul]d consider price confidential whether I consider it or not. I have been very busy indeed and it does not seem to prevent my scaling 187 lbs. I hope you will follow my good example. Got up smoking and get fat. Kind regards to all, ..." (Source: Morgan, E.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_37560. Correspondence, Folder 74, formerly 77. 1898-05-23.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink and pencil) trials booklet 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Experiments & Trial Trips. 1890. N.G. Herreshoff'. Relevant contents:
§49: #195p [LAUNCH FOR ST. Y. DOROTHY] Trial Run (1898-03-16)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_02260. Folder [no #]. 1890-01 to 1898-08.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #195p [Launch for St. Y. Dorothy] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Launch for St Y Dorothea (HMCo-made index card)
• Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

Name: Dorothea
Type: Steam
Length: 27'
Owner: Cramp, William & Sons

Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.

• Launch for Dorothy
• Note: The L. Francis Herreshoff index cards comprise a set of some 1200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and / or ownership information. Apparently compiled in the early 1930s, for later HMCo-built boats like the Fishers Island 23s or the Northeast Harbor 30s are not included. Added to in later decades, apparently by L. F. Herreshoff as well as his long-time secretary Muriel Vaughn and others. Also 46 cards of L. F. Herreshoff-designed vessels. The original set of index cards is held by the Herreshoff Marine Museum and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.

Name: Dorothea
Type: 28' steam tender
Owner: Wm. Cramp & Sons
Row No.: 166

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.

Year: 1897
E/P/S: P
No.: 195
OA: 27'

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

"#195 [Launch for St. Y. Dorothy] Frame spaces 9 5/16 [sp?]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene. [Note in Offset Booklet HH.4.13 in Hart Nautical Collections, M.I.T.] No date [ca. 1898].)

"Launch for the steam yacht Dorothy, 215ft LOA and 178ft LWL, built by William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia for Mr. McKean who died before she was completed. In May 1898, shortly after her builder's trial on April 7, 1898, the Dorothy was bought by the U.S. Navy for use in the Spanish-American war." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. Febrary 2, 2009.)

"Dimensions (which differ slightly from those in the Construction Record) from note on construction plan 2-7." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 26, 2014.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.